Calèche
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Russian Vocabulary And Other Interesting Pictures |
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Calèche |
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| The calèche is a two-wheeled horse drawn vehicle. | Sometimes the calèche has a driver's seat, and sometimes it does not. |
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Countryside |
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| The Russian countryside can harbor very harsh conditions for Russian peasants (noblemen too!). |
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University of Kazan |
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| The University of Kazan was established in 1804. Tolstoy studied at the University, but did not receive a degree. Other notable Kazan scholars include Vladimir Lenin and Aksakov. |
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| Click the picture above for a sound clip of Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata." The reference is to Tolstoy's short story of the same title. |
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| Click the picture above for an audio clip from Mozart's Don Giovanni of "Il Mio Tesoro," the song Stiva is dreaming about at the opening of Anna Karenina. |
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The Russian Mir was a village community in czarist Russia where land was owned jointly and cultivated by individual families. |
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Moscow |
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Click here for an excellent history of the city of Moscow. |
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Two images of Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. The bottom one is live and updated regularly. |
Two sketches of Moscow - the top is of the Moscow river and the bottom of Red Square in the 19th Century. |
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Alexander Nevsky
(1220-1263) was prince of the Russian territory (Novgorod) from 1236-1251.
The Order of Alexander Nevsky is one of the highest military awards to be had. |
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Peasants |
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| The Russian peasant holds a crucial place in Russian history as well as in Tolstoy's literature. Above is a peasant in dress from the early 19th Century. | Above is a woman in peasant dress from the early 19th Century. | |||
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| Above are young peasant ladies in dress from the 1870s. | |||||
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| Above are various images from peasant life in rural Russia from around 1850. | |||||
 The Bronze Horseman Statue |
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| Statue of Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin. | ||||
 View of modern Saint Petersburg. Click picture for enlarged version. |
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Samovar |
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| The samovar is an urn for heating and keeping hot water for tea. |
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Sevastopol |
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| Sevastopol was the scene of a large battle during the Crimean War of 1854-56. Tolstoy himself fought in the battle at Sevastopol and will relate some of his experiences in his "Sevastopol Stories." |
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Soldiers |
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| Above is a depiction of Russian soldiers from the 1880s. |
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Troika |
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| A troika is a Russian carriage used for transportation drawn by, usually, three horses. |
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Tula |
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| Tula is a town located 200 kilometers south of Moscow. This is the town where Tolstoy was born, at Yasnaya Polyana in 1828. |
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